A sports monitoring system and method. One disclosed system can be used during skiing and includes a controller transceiver that can be hand held, two ski boot pressure monitor/transmitters, and earphones connectable to the controller/transceiver. The system can be used to provide, through the earphones, sound indicative of pressure applied or not applied by a skier toward a portion of a boot while skiing. The system may also include a proximity sensor mounted within one of the ski boot pressure monitor/transmitters. The system can thereby provide sound responsive to the proximity detector's detection of one boot being at or not at a distance, or within or outside of a distance range, with respect to the other boot.
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1. A boot pressure monitoring system comprising: a controller comprising a left boot pressure sensor input communicable with a left boot pressure indicator and a right boot pressure sensor input communicable with a right boot pressure indicator, the left boot pressure indicator comprising a left boot pressure audio output and a left earphone, and the right boot pressure indicator comprising a right boot pressure audio output and a right earphone; a left flexible boot pressure sensor communicable with the left boot pressure sensor input; a right flexible boot pressure sensor communicable with the right boot pressure sensor input, wherein each flexible boot pressure sensor comprises a flexible bladder with an interior, material-container compartment, and a pressure sensor communicable with the flexible bladder; a boot proximity sensor; a boot proximity sensor indicator communicable with the boot proximity sensor, the boot proximity sensor indicator comprising a proximity audio output communicable with at least one of the left and right earphones; and the controller further comprising a proximity adjuster communicable with the boot proximity sensor indicator.
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October 15, 2012
July 14, 2015
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